Biosafety Manual

Summary

Follow safety guidance, policies, and procedures to use and manipulate biological materials at Harvard, including:

  • Roles and responsibilities.
  • Committee on Microbiological Safety (COMS) oversight and microbiological safety.
  • Biological safety, biohazards, biosecurity controls, risk assessments, and risk management.
  • Biological lab facility design.
  • Lab move-in.
  • Biological safety training and personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Biosafety cabinets and work practices to reduce aerosols.
  • Handling biological sharps.
  • Shipping biological materials.
  • Decontamination and biological waste management.
  • Incident reporting.
  • Occupational health and medical surveillance.
  • Lab close-out.

Who is this for?

Labs and research.

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